North Lawndale and West Gresham residents were treated to food for the holidays by several local organizations, businesses, and individuals. While waiting in line to receive their generous Thanksgiving donation, community members were treated to pizza and beverages. Organizers Deshawn…
Only Illinois, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, New Mexico, and Washington continue to mandate indoor mask-wearing in public places whether or not people are fully vaccinated. So why is it only six states still have indoor masking requirements when COVID-19 infections are…
I will never forget that day — 58 years ago, Nov. 22, 1963, when I heard the news, I was walking between my third and fourth-period classes. I was a senior at Venice High School in Venice, California. John Fitzgerald…
When it comes to professional sports, I am one of the luckiest people in the world. By the time I was in my mid-teens, I had become a fan of all four major sports; baseball, basketball, football, and hockey. In…
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Voxzogo, also known by the generic name vosoritide, as the first injectable drug to treat dwarfism (achondroplasia). The agency approved the drug for use in children ages five and up. Theresa Kehoe, director of…
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated by Americans on the fourth Thursday of November. It is regarded as a time to come together with loved ones and share thanks for the things for which are blessings. The most common way…
A jury in Glynn County, Georgia, found the three men who chased and ultimately killed Ahmaud Arbery guilty of murder after less than two days of deliberation. Members of the victim’s family joyfully cried aloud. Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, says…
What was otherwise a festive scene in small-town Waukesha, Wisconsin, turned violent when a driver of the red SUV intentionally plowed through barricades and into the crowd celebrating Christmas Parade on Sunday evening, killing six people and injuring 48 others….
My bride and I were in shock. We could not speak. We had no appetite for food. We felt that our country had been attacked by a foreign nation, much like we reacted to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001….
A new study of 2 million-year-old vertebrae fossils indicates an ancient hominid relative was able to walk the ground upright and climb/swing with their arms like apes — or Tarzan. An international team of 17 institutions, including the New York…